Historical & comparative linguistics books

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Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages: Chinese,...

Author: Chungmin Lee ,  Young-Wha Kim
ISBN: 9780367635282
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives

Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics...

Author: Jianhua Hu
ISBN: 9781032401454
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics

Author: Alwin F. Fill ,  Hermine Penz
ISBN: 9781032402123
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of ecolinguistics or language ecology. It discusses language diversity,...  Read More >>

English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language

English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of...

Author: Tim William Machan (Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature, Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature, University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780198846369
Format: Hardback
$77.60

English Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European...  Read More >>

Standard Basque and Its Dialects

Standard Basque and Its Dialects

Author: Koldo Zuazo ,  Gregor Benton
ISBN: 9781032401713
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The origins of Basque dialects are examined, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies.  Read More >>

The Mystery of Incarnation Visits from Heaven to Earth

The Mystery of Incarnation Visits from Heaven to Earth...

Author: Sunday T Eke-Okoro
ISBN: 9798354643950
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Unlock the mystery of divine visitation in this powerful Christian revelation. The Mystery of Incarnation: Visits...  Read More >>

Child-directed Speech in Qaqet: A Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Child-directed Speech in Qaqet: A Language of East New...

Author: Henrike Frye
ISBN: 9781760465162
Format: Paperback
$100.37

Qaqet is a non-Austronesian language, spoken by about 15,000 people in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In the...  Read More >>

La langue gauloise

La langue gauloise

Author: Georges Dottin
ISBN: 9782385080983
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Le livre de M. Dottin renferme tout ce que nous savons de la langue gauloise, c'est-à-dire de la langue parlée dans...  Read More >>

Language Development

Language Development

Author: James Law (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) ,  Sheena Reilly (Griffith University, Queensland)
ISBN: 9781108494090
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Children's language development is of interest to students and practitioners across education and the social and...  Read More >>

Inisyasyon Nan Kilti Ak Lang Kreyòl Ayiti: Pyonye Yo: Pou Christian Beaulieu

Inisyasyon Nan Kilti Ak Lang Kreyòl Ayiti: Pyonye Yo:...

Author: Bob Lapierre
ISBN: 9781088041734
Format: Hardback
$81.81

Liv sa a, se yon inisyasyon nan literati kreyòl Ayisyen an. Nou sèlman prezante istwa lang kreyòl la nan tout peripesi...  Read More >>

Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina

Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South...

Author: Patricia Causey Nichols
ISBN: 9781643363486
Format: Paperback
$67.10

Offers the first detailed linguistic history of South Carolina as Patricia Causey Nichols explores the contacts...  Read More >>

Kalat Claimed

Kalat Claimed

Author: Bahram Beyzaie ,  Manuchehr Anvar
ISBN: 9781735568652
Format: Paperback
$71.28

""Let women bring into this world children filled with loathing for war. The world is ruined by heroes. It is for...  Read More >>

Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7

Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters...

Author: Benjamin D. Suchard
ISBN: 9789004521292
Format: Hardback
$398.64

This book investigates the literary and textual development of the book of Daniel, especially the six court tales...  Read More >>

Sprache in der Geschichte: Etappen der Erforschung des Biblischen Hebräisch

Sprache in der Geschichte: Etappen der Erforschung des...

Author: Brinthanan Puvaneswaran
ISBN: 9783110748215
Format: Hardback
$197.25

This study of scholarship history reveals how biblical Hebrew has been venerated as an eternal and sacred language,...  Read More >>

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives

Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle...

Author: Albrecht Classen
ISBN: 9783110776805
Format: Hardback
$222.99

The book focuses on fundamental questions pertaining to how people in the pre-modern age communicated, utilized...  Read More >>

Sprüche über das Sprechen: Meta-pragmatische Metaphern zum sprachlichen Handeln in Spr 10-29

Sprüche über das Sprechen: Meta-pragmatische Metaphern...

Author: Johannes Thon
ISBN: 9783110765595
Format: Hardback
$197.25

Biblical proverbial wisdom frequently addresses humans' verbal actions. It is often about how communication works...  Read More >>

Julius Wellhausens Göttinger Licentiaten-Promotion von 1870

Julius Wellhausens Göttinger Licentiaten-Promotion von...

Author: Thomas Kaebel
ISBN: 9783110779165
Format: Hardback
$197.25

This volume analyzes Wellhausen's Göttingen licentiate doctorate for a wider audience. Alongside the original Latin...  Read More >>

Christian and Related Terms Used in Interlinear Glosses in the Old English Period

Christian and Related Terms Used in Interlinear Glosses...

Author: Magdalena Bator ,  Michiko Ogura
ISBN: 9783631884430
Format: Hardback
$178.54

This monograph presents Old English renderings of Christian words found in interlinear glosses, especially the Gospels...  Read More >>

Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries: Vol. 3: G, K, Q. with the Collaboration of Bert Kouwenberg, Nadezda Rudik, Jonas Kloker and Frank Simons

Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries: Vol. 3: G,...

Author: Michael P Streck ,  Janine Wende
ISBN: 9783447110273
Format: Paperback
$145.20

The Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) lexicon is currently accessible via two reference dictionaries, Wofram von Soden's...  Read More >>

Fruhaltbabylonische Grammatik

Fruhaltbabylonische Grammatik

Author: Janine Wende
ISBN: 9783447118064
Format: Hardback
$353.76

Diese Korpusgrammatik widmet sich einem bislang wenig beachteten Teilgebiet der akkadischen Sprachgeschichte. Das...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Human Consciousness and Linguistic Behavior: A Synthetic Approach to the Anthropology and Archaeology of Language Origins

The Evolution of Human Consciousness and Linguistic...

Author: Karen A. Haworth ,  Terry J. Prewitt
ISBN: 9781538171196
Format: Paperback
$100.32

In this book the authors draw together work from cognitive science, linguistics, Paleolithic anthropology, art history,...  Read More >>

The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales

The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History...

Author: Nicholas Jubber
ISBN: 9781529327700
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Gelehrtenbriefe an J. P. A. Rémusat und J. Klaproth: Aus der Geschichte der Orientalistik Anfang des 19. Jh.

Gelehrtenbriefe an J. P. A. Rémusat und J. Klaproth:...

Author: Hartmut Walravens
ISBN: 9783756801145
Format: Paperback
$76.30

Die Edition enthält Briefe an die beiden Begründer der Ostasienwissenschaft als kritischer Wissenschaften, Jean...  Read More >>

Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy

Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires...

Author: Francesco Goglia ,  Matthias Wolny
ISBN: 9783030993672
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Sociolinguistic research on immigrant communities in Italy has widely studied the acquisition and use of Italian...  Read More >>

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